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    At last‚ when the ship we were in had got in all her cargo‚ they made ready with many fearful noises‚ and we were all put under deck‚ so that we could not see how they managed the vessel. But this disappointment was the least of my sorrow. The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome‚ that it was dangerous to remain there for any time‚ and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together

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    Colonies 13 Original Colonies. Connecticut‚ Delaware‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ North Carolina‚ Pennsylvania‚ Rhode Island‚ South Carolina‚ and Virginia. Out of these 13‚ Virginia‚ Rhode Island‚ and Pennsylvania stood out to me the most. Even though these three colonies have differences based on how they started‚ who governed them‚ and how they were governed‚ they still have many similarities. 1607. Jamestown‚ Virginia. Founded by John Smith

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    Vladir Diaz Thirteen Colonies The thirteen colonies in the United States are‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Delaware‚ Maryland‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina and Georgia. Each one of them has their own story characteristics that I’ll be listing them in the following paragraphs. Massachusetts was founded on 1630 by John Winthrop and others. Their major industry consists of fishing‚ corn‚ livestock‚ lumbering‚ shipbuilding and their

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    Ereena Ceus Dr. Etheridge African American Heritage 23 June 2011 Short Paper #1 White indentured servants and African slaves in the Chesapeake colonies were often treated the same. They worked for a certain period of time then they were freed. Linda Bryant stated that the lives of black and white indentures were similar at the time (00). The two groups had more commonalities than differences. For example‚ when clearing forests and planting tobacco crops both groups

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    seventeenth century‚ American’s took religious very seriously. The American’s were not active communicants. One in fifteen people that was in the southern colonies was a member of the church. In the eighteenth century‚ a church became official. The religious belief and practice in the eighteenth century‚ it was not as demanding as in Puritan‚ New England and Quaker‚ Pennsylvania. The colonial Anglicans from England‚ was a lot more rational‚ formal and conservative with their modes of worship. The Anglicans

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    the early colonies of America. You might be surprised to read that Africans‚ not Indians‚ were the first American slaves. By 1617‚ one hundred and twenty five years after Columbus and his European men arrived in North America; Virginian had become an established colony and they were in trouble. They had lost hundreds’ as a result of starvation and had become desperate for both food and labor. This‚ you could say was the “historical force” behind slavery in the colonies. Virginia

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    The reason why the Lost Colony of Roanoke is significant to World History is because it was the first attempt for the English colonists to settle. They were looking for the first permanent place to colonize. The land that the Europeans settled in is now known as Virginia. It’s noteworthy because Jamestown had the same story as Roanoke. They were both attempts for the English to settle but both mysteriously disappeared‚ and both weren’t successful. Before Jamestown and Plymouth rock there was Roanoke

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    Task 1: List your chosen age group Age group: Early Childhood Task 2: Topic Identify your topic choice: Social Skills Provide a 1 paragraph summary of your topic: I want to look deeper into the social aspects of early childhood education. I find it fascinating that early childhood aged children have already developed most of their basic ground social skills‚ and will build from there on up. What makes your topic appropriate for the age group you have chosen (1-2 sentences): I

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    Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies The Reformation was the driving force behind English Catholic dissenters‚ many of which would eventually form the base of groups heading for new lands to find religious freedom. These people would come to be called Puritans and their goal was to purify the Church of England. They wanted to do away with the “offensive” features such as Church hierarchy and traditional rituals of Catholic worship in order to promote a relationship between the individual and

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    Georgia may have been the last colony‚ but certainly not the least. James Oglethorpe‚ an English man who was a member of parliament and was a great person all around‚ founded it. Pennsylvania‚ is very different from Georgia‚ founded about 50 years before Georgia by Sir William Penn. Georgia is very unique and different from Pennsylvania because of it purpose‚ government and economics. First of all‚ Georgia was the 13th colony‚ and was not very stable at first. King George II gave Oglethorpe a charter

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